There were a lot of neat miscellanous exhibits at the VLM, including an indoor bee hive, fossilized dinosaur tracks, and this nifty display of a snake’s fangs opening and closing:

Fangs

I finally managed to get some photos of a river otter. These are the most playful animals of the all, always hamming it up for vistors. The only problem is that they are so spastic, it’s impossible to get a photograph of them. I usually come home with lots of blurs on my camera. I got three photos of this one, nothing spectacular, but it was nice to have something since this was my fourth attempt photographing this animal:

River Otter

Check out the complete flickr set here and here.